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This might be a little bit of tinfoil hattery, but I think there are probably still a lot of wildfire jars buried throughout the city. And given the information that with sufficient heat, the wildfire may ignite, I think GRRM has given us a Chekov's gun of sorts. Imagine Dany comes to KL with full force, dragons included. They're burning things like dragons do, and suddenly, boom, thousands of underground wildfire jars go off and the entire city is engulfed in green flame. I still believe there will be no Iron Throne in the end, so why not get rid of the whole city?

Anyway that's my ridiculously unlikely speculation of the day. Other thoughts include that I want a shadowcat skin cloak.

The pyromancer makes a point of "the substance" getting thinner, therefore igniting quicker, as it warms up and that it damages its container as time passes; an accidental wildfire explosion is definitely plausible. I thought this may be a hint of an explosion too,

He jabbed his bony finger back at comet and castle. “There comes the Harbinger! Cleanse yourselves, the gods cry out, lest ye be cleansed! Bathe in the wine of righteousness, or you shall be bathed in fire! Fire!”

Let her flay half my face, it will be a small price to pay for her consent to the Dornish marriage.

I'm very confused about this statement. Did Tyrion always plan to send Myrcella to Dorne? What if Petyr was the liar, and she would up getting sent to the Vale? Tyrion didn't know which of the three were the liars yet...

Tyrion sent the raven to Dorne before he knew who the liars were, so that was indeed always his plan. Tyrion never considered an alliance with the Vale as a viable possibility; remember, he knows Lysa Arryn better than most after his time in the Eyrie in aGoT. His test for Pycelle, Littlefinger, and Varys was independent of Dornish alliance.

Yup. It was more of what he told each of those players the alliances were. He gave Pycelle the actual letter of the real Dornish plans. He told LF of fake Vale plans. Varys heard the LF plans but he also knew Pycelle had a letter to Dorne, so Tyrion told Varys that Myrcella was going to the Vale and Tommen was going to Dorne.

the alchemists attempt at damage mitigation for the stockpile pots seems silly to me:

We have sealed
[the wildfire pots] with wax and pumped the lower vault full of water

would this have done anything really (might this even make it worse if this ignites)? since Tyrion throws the wildfire in the black water it just burns atop of the rush. sounds like they should have made precautions like they did when creating the stuff:

Above each work cell
is a room filled entirely with sand...Any fire in the cell below causes the floors to
fall away, and the sand smothers the blaze at once."

but i suppose this is just set for us to see KL to burn like the rest of you have already pointed out.

It's interesting to read interactions between Cersei and Tyrion the second time around, knowing more about why she hates Tyrion. In fact, the first time around we have no clue how much she fears him. So reading these chapters again, I keep remembering how much of a monster she must see him as.